Season of the Witch Official Trailer 2

I love the idea of getting to watch a good supernatural thriller. With so many bad ones out Season of the Witch is fighting an uphill battle.

The trailer looks ok and is better than the first one released.On the plus side Ron Perlman is in it and he's a staple for the sci-fi/ fantasy / horror industry.

Plot: A 14th century Crusader who returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardizes the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.

The Karate Kid Remake Trailer

Columbia Pictures has a trailer out for The karate Kid remake. I grew up watching The original Karate Kid movies and found them very inspirational and formative.

Like many in fandom I too grew up under the terror regime of a neighborhood bully. The Karate Kid showed me the importance to standing up to bullies, the tools necessary are within us and in the environment around us and that violence does not resolve conflict.

The original movie showed me how our environment can provide for the tools necessary to get a job done that accessing those tools are just a matter of creativity and awareness.

Beyond all of that the original Karate Kid taught me that the real fight against an opponent is not a physical one. It laid the ground work and awareness that violence does not resolve a conflict but that once one has defeated their fear the bully is defeated.

Because of that deep and personal relationship with the original movie I've been skeptical of the remake, concerned that those values will not be maintained. After watching the trailer I have more hope for the movie. Watch the trailer below.

A 12 year old detroit kid moves to China with his mother. Due to cultural differences he makes the class bully and enemy. With no friends, in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a master of kung fu. Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Trailer #2

I came across the trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs before watching G-Force and found it somewhat funny. It looks like a nice kids movie for the family due to come out September 18th. It reminded me of the game candy land that I played when a small child and what if a land actually became covered with candy. Watch the trailer below.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is about an inventor who struggles with having a successful invention. Then he creates a mechine that will deliver on demand food from the sky having it fall like rain. But like his other inventions things start to go terribly wrong.

Theater or Renter: March 2009

Theater or Renter: March 2009 includes Five Speculative Fiction movies Watchmen, Race to Witch Mountain, Knowing, Monsters vs. Aliens, and The Haunting in Connecticut. Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?

The Plot / Story: Set in an alternate 1985 America where tensions between the US and the Soviet Union is high and the "Doomsday Clock" is set at five minutes to midnight, former superhero-turned vigilante Rorschach discovers that one of his former colleagues has been murdered. As he investigates the murder he uncovers a plot that is intent on killing and discrediting all past and present superheros. As he reconnects with members of his former crime-fighting legion, including Nite Owl II, Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, they uncover a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy that not only links to their shared past but has catastrophic consequences for the future. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The Plot / Story: Advancing the storyline from the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, a Las Vegas cab driver and a discredited astrophysicist attempt to rescue two paranormal siblings from the hands of a villainous man. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The Plot / Story: John Koestler, a professor, finds that the contents of a time capsule at his son's elementary school make predictions of the future that have come true. The predictions lead the teacher to believe the world is ending, and that he and his son are involved in the apocalypse. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The Plot / Story: When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall. She is labeled a monster and captured by the military and held at an institution that houses other monsters. When a UFO lands and an alien overlord named Gallaxhar demands that Earth be given to them, General W.R. Monger suggests to the President that the monsters can provide the firepower to defeat the aliens. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The Plot / Story: Based on a "true" story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The “true” story was featured on the Discovery Channel television show called "A Haunting.” It was actually one their pilot episode called "A Haunting in Connecticut.” For more on the episode check out wikipedia episode guide here

Trailer: Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

I really like the new trailer for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. This one really demonstrates some of the potential this next movie and helps to quash some concerns that were left after the Superbowl trailer.

The Superbowl trailer left me worried with it’s lack of giant robots and over focus on the human characters being chased. It really looked like there was going to be little to no difference between Transformers and the Terminator movie.

Michael Bay did tell us in earlier interviews that this movie is going to have more robots in it. This claim is backed up now Now after watching this trailer. Now I’m getting excited about this movie